Then, if you don't want an SMS, you install the application on your phone which requires zero access to the 'net.

Well, you can always choose to not do it. You get increased convenience that way, with the expected tradeoff...

In that case you install the application on your phone instead. The app requires no net access at all-- it just generates a code.

I love slashdot!! :)

Unfortunately, nothing I can publish without permission.
I can say that I'm in charge of maintaining the software that terminates all HTTP traffic for Google. Draw your own conclusions.

This may be true for Java.
It isn't true for C/C++.

With C/C++ and NPTL, the many-thread blocking IO style yields slightly lower latency at low IO rates, but offers significant latency variability and sharply decreased thruput at higher IO rates.
It seems that the linux scheduler is much to blame for this-- the number of times that a thread is scheduled on a different CPU increases dramatically with more threads, and this trashes the caches.
I've seen order-of-magnitude decreases in performance and order-of-magnitude increases in latency as a result of what appears to be the cache trashing.

So long as ONE character set is required, then it works.
It was the latin charset, it may as well have stayed that.
Now, we'll have places where you simply cannot type in the domain name. Hurrah for allowing china's censors another easy way to cut off access to anything else!

Note that this isn't always true.
There are extensions (implemented my many browsers) in TLS which allow it to tell the server which host the connection is intended to be for in the handshake.
I don't believe that IE implements this, but it could only be IE6. I forget.

This is important, since we're running out of IPs and people do want to use virtual hosting in the same manner that they do for HTTP-- symmetry is easy to maintain!

They are attempting to add it to Chromium and get it into HTTP servers.

http://dev.chromium.org/spdy

There is a link to the code somewhere there. If not, just search the chromium repo as that is where it lives.

It is open and you can play with it too. There is also an Apache mod for it, I believe, though I haven't searched for that lately.
More numbers and studies are available there.

disclosure: I'm one of the SPDY authors

In this case you need to put a root cert on the school's computers, and do a MITM for SSL.
SSL doesn't mean no MITM. It means no *unauthorized* MITM...

If it is logical to kill anyone who speaks against you because you can get away with it (and the outcome is more beneficial to you, you believe), then it is reasonable to kill people for speaking out against you?

logic != ethical.

All of the logical arguments that show that our ethics have evolved don't apply in this case. When we create systems where one entity has nearly absolute power we've thrown our millions of years of evolution out the window and face extinction. This would be one logical outcome-- nature will evolve to adapt to that people's future non-existence...

Anyway... your point is absurd :)

The road to hell is also paved with standing by and doing nothing when they take your freedom away from you. If the companies have say over what does and doesn't go over their network, what do you think they're gonna do? They'll happily let customers gab about how they such? Ha, right. How about letting their customers offer a competing service? Ha. What about letting anyone else offer a competing service? Uh no.

Look, sometimes government is there for a good reason. It is *HARD* to go and get rights to lay cable, not even counting the expense of doing it. Look at the companies that have been suing local gov'ts when they've been laying their own cable (and *WINNING* the argument, if not the case, by out-spending the local gov'ts).

Pull your head out of the sand and look around.

No, unfortunately, I actually know what I'm talking about while you're being irrational and insulting.
The analogy was an attempt to get you to understand the loadbalancing problem, which I'd really like for you to understand.

If I sign a contract with Johnny, and Johnny signs a contract with Mike to do something to me, that still doesn't make it legal to do something to me.

Ann Eschoo represents much of Silicon Valley.
I'm pretty dang happy with most of what she does. I wish there were more Reps out there like her (maybe one day she can be Senator... that'd be great)!